looking for the patch on GDB to handle core dump from arm

Paul Koning pkoning@equallogic.com
Fri Jan 6 15:45:00 GMT 2006


>>>>> "Jean-Rene" == Jean-Rene Peulve <jr.peulve@wanadoo.fr> writes:

 Jean-Rene> Hi, On an x86, I am trying to analyse a core dump
 Jean-Rene> produiced on an arm platform running uClinux-2.4.27.

 Jean-Rene> Unfortunately GDB complains that it cannot "read core file
 Jean-Rene> on this machine".

 Jean-Rene> I saw that Jon Ringle and Daniel Jacobowitz have been
 Jean-Rene> working on that problem but I cannot find the right
 Jean-Rene> version of gdb and binutils to use.

I fixed that on a local copy of GDB 6.3 by editing the configure
script so it includes the corefile handler even if host != target.  
It may be that I had to make other changes as well, I don't remember
anymore.  

	  paul




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